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=☽ Notes and Errata=
==Endnote 3==

'''cardioid'''<br />
In geometry, a cardioid is a plane curve produced by tracing the path of a chosen point of a circle which rolls around a fixed circle. The cardioid shape of E.T.A. has one cusp, i.e., a point on the curve that is not smooth. The ''r'' referred to by the narrator here is the radius of the moving circle.

'''Übermensch'''<br />
German for "superhuman"

'''Brandeis'''<br />
Brandeis is a Jewish-founded university in Waltham, Mass., about nine miles west of Boston, named for Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

==Endnote 5==

'''N.B.'''<br />
abbreviation for Latin ''nota bene'', i.e., "note well," stated before an important example or corollary point

==Endnote 5a==

'''nystagmus'''<br />
involuntary eye movement of an iterative stereotyped nature, most commonly horizontal 

'''entrepôt'''<br />
a port, city, or other center to which goods are brought for import and export, and for collection and distribution.

'''loquacity'''<br />
talkativeness

==Endnote 6==

'''Halcion (still available in Canada, unbelievably, still)'''<br />
It's also still available here, though the U.K. has banned it since 1991. OED: proprietary name for the hypnotic triazolam

==Endnote 7==

'''bevelling'''<br />
Here meaning "smoothed out" and misspelled, beveling is the making of 45º angles where perpendiculars meet.

==Endnote 8==

'''dickies'''<br />
As a dickie is designed to give the appearance of wearing a tie, Wallace uses this word here to deal with drugs that mimic the effects of other drugs.

'''MMDA, DMA, DMMM, 2CB, para-DOT I-VI'''<br />
You can read about MMDA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28psychedelic%29 here], DMA [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethoxyamphetamine here], 2CB [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2CB here], DOT [http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35343 here] (apparently). DMMM appears to be made up. 

'''CNS'''<br />
central nervous system

'''gamma hydroxybutric acid'''<br />
now more commonly known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Hydroxybutyric_acid GHB]

'''DMZ/M.P.'''<br />
DMZ is another made-up drug. M.P. refers to its street name, Madame Psychosis.

===Endnote 8a===

'''Muscimole'''<br />
another mushroom-based hallucinogen, like psilocybin

'''DDMS'''<br />
dibromododecenyl methylsulfimide

'''DMSO'''<br />
dimethylsulfoxide, a common solvent used in many laboratories.  It is readily absorbed through the skin, taking with it whatever it has dissolved.

==Endnote 12a==

'''"...Continental Controlled Substances Act of Y.T.M.P., O.N.A.N.D.E.A.'s hierarchy of analgesics/antipyretics/axiolytics..."'''<br />
There is no such act, obviously. Y.T.M.P. is [[Subsidized Time|Year of the Tucks Medicated Pad]]. The second acronym is Organization of North American Nations Drug Enforcement Agency. Analgesics are painkillers. Antipyretics are fever-reducing drugs, and anxiolytics are anxiety-reducing drugs.

==Endnote 13==

'''Quo Vadis'''<br />
Latin: Where are you going? Famously asked of Jesus by Peter when the former was on his way to be crucified. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis here.] Also a novel and [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043949/ film] by that name were made.


==Endnote 17==

'''datum'''<br />
piece of information, the singular form of the word "data"

==Endnote 19==

French: A person of terrible importance
: A person of ''the'' terrible importance. As is often the case in IJ, it makes no sense in French but conveys a feeling of the differences between languages.

==Endnote 21==

'''Q.v.'''<br />
Latin abbreviation for ''quod vide'' ("which see"), used to direct a reader elsewhere in a book. Here we are directed to...

==Endnote 23==
'''U.S.D.D.'''<br />
United States Department of Defense

==Endnote 24 · JAMES O. INCANDENZA: A FILMOGRAPHY==
===Page 986===
'''meniscus'''<br/>
here, a lens with a crescent-shaped section, convex on one side and concave on the other; also the curved interface between a liquid and gas in a tube

'''soliloquized'''<br/>
spoken to oneself

'''incunabular'''<br/>
early stages of something

'''D W Griffith'''<br />
Film Director whose films include 'Tolerance' and 'Birth of a Nation'; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._W._Griffith Wikipedia entry]

'''Taka Limura'''<br />
Japanese film maker - [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies/iimura.chin.pdf see article] <br />

'''Heliotrope'''<br />
An arrangement of mirrors for reflecting sunlight from a distant point to an observation station.<br />

===Page 987===
'''Latrodectus Mactans'''<br/>
Properly, Latrodectus mactans, Latin name for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans Black Widow] spider


'''neuralgia'''<br/>
A form of chronic pain where pain is felt in a nerve without stimulation of pain receptors. Difficult to diagnose and treat.

===Page 988===
'''Godbout'''<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Godbout Jacques Godbout], a French-Canadian filmmaker and documentarian.

===Page 992===

'''concupiscence'''<br />

Strong sexual desire

'''Les Anges du Peché'''<br />
Misspelling of ''Les Anges du péché'' (1943).

===Page 993===

'''Tête-Bêche'''<br />
French for ''upside down''.

==Endnote 82==

[[Image:Plaid.jpg|thumb|caption|Night Watch Plaid|150px|right]]
'''Bean'''<br />
as in L.L. Bean, a privately-held mail-order and retail company based in Freeport, Maine, United States, specializing in clothing and outdoor recreation equipment. 

'''Night Watch plaid'''<br />
A pattern of plaid. See right.

==Endnote 110 · Hal and Orin Discuss Québecois Politics==

===Page 1004===
'''Hush Puppy'''<br />
a [http://www.hushpuppies.com/en-US/Main.aspx brand name] of shoes

'''squeegeed'''<br />
cleaned with a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeegee squeegee]

'''truncated'''<br />
cut short

===Page 1005===

'''R&R'''<br />
Rest and Relaxation

'''ex officio'''<br />
Latin: by virtue of one's office

''''The Yellow Rose (of Texas)''''<br />
Dickinson's poems can also be read to the meter of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

'''falsetto'''<br />
a man's voice when he pitches it falsely high to sound like a woman

'''riffling'''<br />
turning pages quickly

'''unannaly'''<br />
not anally fixated (see Z.Freud Psychosexual Stage Theory),i.e. without obsessive compulsive urge to perfect order and tidiness, as opposed  to his mom's  Avril Incandenza anally retentive personality and habitual order seeking 

'''Ample make this bed'''<br />
The full poem is [http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1337.html here].

===Page 1006===

'''quotidian'''<br />
commonplace, literally, “everyday”

[[Subsidized Time|Y.W.-Q.M.D.]]

'''pistil'''<br />
that part of a flower that is analogous to the female reproductive organs

'''Sikorski-sized'''<br />
Sikorsky-sized misspelt, helicopter-sized; the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_R-4 Sikorsky R-4] was the first mass-produced helicopter

'''paucity'''<br />
scarcity

'''swotted'''<br />
studied intensively

'''wakked'''<br />
I have no idea.

'''unperspicous'''<br />
not clearly expressed or presented

'''penultimate'''<br />
second to last

'''whingeing'''<br />
complaining (pronounced to rhyme with "jing")

'''xerophagy'''<br />
("[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerophagy dry eating]", from Greek ξηρός "dry" and φαγεῖν "eat") is the practice of eating dry food, especially food cooked without oil.

===Endnote 110d===

'''anti-sclerotic'''<br />
tending to ward of hardening of tissues (as of arteries, here)

===Page 1006 (cont'd)===

'''maunder'''<br />
to talk incoherently or aimlessly

'''Solecism'''<br />
nonstandard or incorrect grammatical usage

'''and c.'''<br />
et cetera

===Page 1007===

'''20 X 25 centimeter'''<br />
very close to 8" x 10"

'''Jethro Bodine'''<br />
a character on the television show [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055662/ The Beverly Hillbillies]

'''proviso'''<br />
a clause, usually in a document, making a stipulation or qualification

'''"...isn't even iambic, much less quatrameter/trimeter..."'''<br />
This is to say that the poetry of Dickinson is not in iambic pentameter, a particular form of verse. This is the style of poetry Shakespeare is written in ("Now is the winter of our discontent") -- ten syllables, and five iambs (feet, or beats) per line (thus pentameter). Quatrameter/trimeter would be the rhythm scheme of "Yellow Rose of Texas" and "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (although note that the first foot of the latter is incomplete). 

'''dink'''<br />
a synonym for a drop shot, which in tennis is a light tap just over the net

===Page 1008===

'''obverse'''<br />
the more conspicuous of two possible choices

'''seraphic'''<br />
like an angel

'''lascivious'''<br />
appealing to sexual tastes

'''mesmerized'''<br />
hypnotized

'''skitter'''<br />
to move rapidly along a surface

'''knight-errant'''<br />
a knight on a quest to prove his chivalry

===Page 1009===

'''Ainsi'''<br />
French: so to speak

'''breviary'''<br />
a prayer and hymn book


'''gynecopia'''<br />
Latin coined term - female(gyne) abundant(copia)

'''"Kitchens and heat..."'''<br />
which is to say, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen

===Page 1010===

'''Gloeckner'''<br />
German for "ringer," taking that in either of the meanings it has in English

'''3-kilo'''<br />
a little over 7.25 pounds

'''Snuff'''<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff ground tobacco], which is inhaled rather than smoked or chewed

'''Andover'''<br />
as in [http://www.boardingschoolreview.com/school_ov/school_id/5 Philips Academy Andover], alma mater of both Presidents Bush

'''"Dickinson's about as Transcendalist as Poe."'''<br />
which is to say, not at all

===Page 1011===

[[Image:Eddy.jpg|right]]

'''R.C.M.P.'''<br />
Royal Canadian Mounted Police

'''Nelson Eddy'''<br />
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (1901-1967) was an American singer and [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248904/ movie star]. As far as what he looked like, see right.


Rose Marie, 1936, is probably his most-remembered film. His definitive portrayal of the steadfast Mountie became a popular icon, frequently spoofed in cartoons and TV skits. When the Mounties retired their classic red jackets and hat in 1970, except for ceremonial attire, hundreds of newspapers accompanied the story with a photo of Nelson Eddy as Sgt. Bruce in Rose Marie, made 34 years earlier. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Eddy WP]

equestrian jaspers: probably means jodhpurs 



'''Droll'''<br />
whimsically comic

===Page 1012===

'''nanomicroscopy'''<br />
the looking at extremely small things (nano- being the prefix for "one-billionth") through a microscope

'''Thevet'''<br />
This is probably a reference to André de Thevet (1502-1590), a French priest and explorer.  Though never in Canada, he relied on French-Canadian explorers' work for his own voyages to South America.

'''"...the 5 on the French Achievement boards..."'''<br />
The highest possible score on the French Advanced Placement Exam (for which one can receive college credit) is 5.

'''Boswell'''<br />
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (1740-1795), was the Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson.

'''E cup'''<br />
a very large breast size

'''acuity'''<br />
acuteness of perception

'''in utero'''<br />
in the womb

'''thalidomide'''<br />
a drug developed to treat morning sickness in pregnant women that ended up causing babies to be born missing limbs

'''Condé Nast'''<br />
one of the largest magazine publishers in the country, owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family) and founded by Condé Montrose Nast (1873-1942), an American publisher

'''deform'''<br />
here meaning simply "to spoil"

'''persona'''<br />
a fictional identity created for a person, narrator in a book, etc.

'''''du'''''<br />
French: of the (masculine)

===Page 1013===

'''Meech Lake'''<br />
a lake in Gatineau Park, near Chelsea, Québec

'''Parizeau'''<br />
This is probably Jacques Parizeau (born 1930), a former Premier of Québec and proponent of Québecois sovereignty.

'''Charlottetown'''<br />
the capital of the Canadian province of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island Prince Edward Island]

'''Crétien assassination'''<br />
This is probably a misspelling of the surname of Joseph Jacques Jean Chrétien (born 1934), Prime Minister of Canada from 1993 to 2003.

'''Francophonic'''<br />
French-speaking

'''Acadian Zionism'''<br />
Acadia is the traditional name for what is now (in part) eastern Québec. Zionism is used here as a synonym for nationalism, rather than with its specific Jewish connotations

'''Toujours'''<br />
French: always

'''"On ne parle d'Anglais ici."'''<br />
French: English is not spoken here

'''Ottawa'''<br />
the capital of Canada

'''"Permettez Nous Partir, Permettez Nous Être."'''<br />
French: Allow us to leave, allow us to be.

'''Winnipeg'''<br />
the capital of Canadian province of Manitoba

'''flux'''<br />
frequent change

'''appalled'''<br />
dismayed

'''UV-booth'''<br />
UV standing for ultraviolet (as in light), this is probably a tanning booth.

===Page 1014===

'''"Nous v. La Plupart Toujours"'''<br />
French: Us versus the majority always

'''Lesotho'''<br />
a kingdom of southern Africa, existing as an enclave entirely within the Republic of South Africa

'''SOUTHAF'''<br />
This is the Union of South Africa, which was formed in 1910 as a British colony and tried to annex Lesotho to it. Because of the imposition of ''apartheid'' laws in S. Africa, the annexation failed.

'''antebellum'''<br />
before the war, here the U.S. Civil War

===Endnote 110h===

'''Gallic'''<br />
French

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Anglophone'''<br />
English-speaking

'''Plains of Abraham'''<br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_of_Abraham Battle of the Plains of Abraham], part of the French and Indian Wars, which ended in a decisive British victory of the French

===Endnote 110i===

''''La Guerre des Britanniques et des Sauvages''''<br />
French: The War of the British and the Savages

'''Ticonderoga'''<br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Carillon Battle of Carillon], fought at Fort Ticonderoga

===Page 1014 (cont'd)===

'''Booty'''<br />
treasure taken from a defeated party

'''1759'''<br />
On September 13, 1759, Québec fell to the British.

'''NAFTA'''<br />
North American Free Trade Agreement

'''Rubensian'''<br />
The word more often used is "Rubenesque," but this refers to the women in paintings by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), the Flemish artist. His women were usually voluptuous, not to say plump.

'''retardate'''<br />
more often used as a noun, offensively referring to a retarded person

'''rapacious'''<br />
ravenous

===Page 1015===

'''lissome'''<br />
supple

'''Rubensophile'''<br />
See above, Rubensian.

'''gulag'''<br />
a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GULAG GULAG] prison system of the Soviet Union

''''ce pas?'''<br />
French elision of "n'est-ce pas?" i.e., "right?"

'''Anbesol'''<br />
a brand name of benzocaine used for tooth pain

'''flanges'''<br />
Orin probably means to say "phalanges."

'''Rue Sherbrooke'''<br />
a road in Montreal

'''St. Jean-Baptiste Day'''<br />
another name for la [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%AAte_nationale_du_Qu%C3%A9bec fête nationale du Québec]

'''anaerobic'''<br />
thriving without oxygen

===Page 1016===

'''weedy'''<br />
scrawny; Hal is probably using it to mean "thin," as in a line of argumentation

'''Brazilian ''Nuevo Contras'''''<br />
These would be "new" ''contras'', the old ones having been U.S.-funded anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Note, though, that ''Nuevo'' being a Spanish word would not be a likely name for a Brazilian group (where Brazilian Portuguese is spoken).

'''The Noie Störkraft's? Shining Path's? The Belgian CCC's?'''<br />
''Noie Störkraft'' is Swedish "New Great Power"; it does not appear to be a new organization, though Störkraft is the name of a skinhead band from Sweden. The Shining Path (''Sendero Luminoso'' in Spanish) is the Communist Party of Peru, which has waged guerrilla warfare against the Peruvian government since 1980. CCC is a French acronym for Communist Combatant Cells; they were eliminated as a terrorist group in 1986.

'''''Ez-ed-Dean-el-Qassan'''''<br />
an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izz_ad-Din_al-Qassam_Brigades alternate spelling] of a Palestinian militant group affiliated with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas Hamas]

'''P.E.T.A.'''<br />
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

[[Image:Munch.jpg|right|100px]]

'''wobbled shrieking figure in the Munch lithograph'''<br />
See right.

===Page 1017===

'''subjoin'''<br />
to append to the end of something

'''attendant'''<br />
consequent or concomitant

'''cloracne'''<br />
probably a misspelling of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloracne chloracne]

'''olfactory hallucinations'''<br />
hallucinations wherein one smells things that aren't there

'''machete'''<br />
a large cleaver-like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machete cutting tool]

'''Infant-depredations'''<br />
attacks and pillaging by feral infants (see footnote 304, pp. 1055ff, about them)

'''phenols'''<br />
another name for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenol carbolic acid]

'''Fundy'''<br />
probably a reference to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy Bay of Fundy]

'''straw-and-camel'''<br />
i.e., the straw that broke the camel's back

===Page 1018===

'''Docksider'''<br />
a type of boat shoe

'''full-toll'''<br />
i.e., it takes its full toll on you

'''Constantine'''<br />
perhaps [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I Constantine I], by tradition first Christian emperor of Rome

'''merde'''<br />
French for "shit"

'''cartographic'''<br />
having to do with maps

'''parliamentary wigs'''<br />
Canadian MPs don't wear wigs, though barristers (lawyers) and judges do.

===Page 1019===

'''bone of dissension'''<br />
Orin means "bone of contention."

'''desmirched'''<br />
probably a malapropism, although it could mean "to un-besmirch"

'''re-gerrymandered'''<br />
To gerrymander is to divide an area into electoral districts favorable to one party over another.

'''Cuibono'''<br />
more properly ''cui bono'', Latin for "who benefits?"

'''swivet'''<br />
a state of nervous excitement

'''D-bases'''<br />
databases

'''falcate'''<br />
to curve like a sickle

'''Albertan ultra-rightists'''<br />
There is a tradition of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Separatism separatism] in Alberta.

'''Duluth'''<br />
a town in Minnesota and home to Bob Dylan, on Lake Superior about 150 miles north of the Twin Cities

===Page 1020===

'''Vichified'''<br />
i.e., as Vichy France, which was a puppet government to the Nazis

'''Anschluss'''<br />
German for "annexation," it most often refers to Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938.

'''mayhi'''<br />
Orin seems to be using this term as a plural of "mayhem."

'''P.Q.s'''<br />
members of the Parti Québecois

'''P.M.'''<br />
Prime Minister (of Canada)

'''''aller, partir'''''<br />
French: to go, to leave

===Page 1021===

'''hapless'''<br />
here meaning haphazard

'''botulizing'''<br />
infecting with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulism botulism]

'''jaunty'''<br />
smartly trim

'''toggle'''<br />
a type of switch

'''anapestic'''<br />
In poetry, an anapest is a trisyllable metrical foot of the following pattern: two unstressed syllables, followed by one long or stressed syllable. (Eg the line "'Twas the ''night'' before ''Christ''mas, and ''all'' through the ''house''" contains four anapestic feet.)

===Page 1022===

==Endnote 145 · Found Drama==

An invented, non-existent faux-academic style of film on which James O. Incandenza lectured and received artistic grants, created to lampoon the academic film theory community.  Found Drama was not captured on film; rather, Incandenza and close friends "got out a Boston metro phone book and tore a White Pages page out at random and thumbtacked it to the wall and then [Incandenza] would throw a dart at it from across the room. ... And the name it hit becomes the subject of the Found Drama.  And whatever happens to the protagonist with the name you hit with the dart for ... the next hour and a half is the Drama."

===Page 1026===

[[Subsidized Time|Y.D.A.U.]]

===Page 1027===

'''ne pas à la mode'''<br />
French: not in style

'''New Wave'''<br />
When this term is used w/r/t Himself's work, it is probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_New_Wave French New Wave], although there were several other "New Waves" in film.

'''Dick'''<br />
I'm unable to identify whether this person is real or not.

'''art-gesture films'''<br />
apparently a created genre

'''isness'''<br />
i.e., being

'''stasis'''<br />
inactivity caused by equal opposing forces

'''tenure-jockeys'''<br />
i.e., junior faculty at universities who are on tenure track

'''Orthochromatic'''<br />
According to the ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary,'' this word means "representing correctly the relations of colors as found in a subject; isochromatic."

'''retrogradism'''<br />
This neologism would seem to have the sense of the study or condition of moving backward.

'''McLean Hospital'''<br />
a real [http://mcleanhospital.org/ psychiatric hospital] in Belmont, Mass., about eight miles west-northwest of Boston

'''Duquette at M.I.T.'''<br />
There is no such person at M.I.T.

'''Posener'''<br />
There is no such person at Brandeis.

===Page 1028===

===Page 1031===

==Endnote 162==

[[Image:Francis bacon head VI.jpg|thumb|caption|Head VI (1949), Francis Bacon|150px|right]]
'''a Baconian pope with his hat on fire'''<br />
Referring to the work of 20th century figurative painter [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(artist) Francis Bacon] and his "screaming pope" paintings.

===Page 1035===

==Endnote 211==

'''suborn'''<br />
to bribe or induce someone to commit a crime or misdeed

==Endnote 234 · Excerpts From Orin's Interview With ''Moment''==

===Page 1037===

==Endnote 228==

'''ambit'''<br />
NOAD: thescope, extent, or bounds of something

==Endnote 231 · Inositol==
'''Inositol'''<br />
the capitalization of both inositol and mannitol is inappropriate. It is not a B-vitamin but at one time was thought to be one, "B8." I think from context that cyanocobalamin was intended.

===Page 1038===

'''Rafferty'''<br />
Terrence Rafferty was a film critic for the ''New Yorker'' magazine.

'''NPR'''<br />
National Public Radio

===Page 1039===

'''dun'''<br />
make repeated demands on

'''Madison Avenue'''<br />
the street in New York famous for its advertising firms

'''traversion'''<br />
Orin probably means "introversion."

'''T-square'''<br />
a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-square drafting tool]

===Page 1040===

'''Prussian'''<br />
here used to mean "very strict"

'''schizogenic'''<br />
<i>botany</i>, produced or formed by fission;  what DFW apparently intends here is a neologism/malaprop for “tending to cause someone to become schizoid,”  the strict psychiatric definition of which is denoting or having a personality type characterized by emotional aloofness and solitary habits. ‹informal› having inconsistent or contradictory elements; mad or crazy

'''pathogenic'''<br />
capable of producing disease

===Page 1041===

'''antidote'''<br />
malaprop, "anecdote."

'''Quelquechose'''<br />
French: something

===Page 1042===

'''pièce'''<br />
as in "pièce de resistance," the punchline or main point

===Page 1043===

'''four horsemen'''<br />
as in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse] from the Book of Revelation

'''BPL'''<br />
Boston Public Library

==Endnote 269 · Steeply-Bain Correspondence==
===Page 1047===

''''After my own parents were horribly killed on the Jamaica Way commuter road one morning in the freak crash of a radio traffic-report helicopter...''''<br />

Lateral Alice Moore was handicapped when the news helicopter she flew in crashed onto a highway. It could have been the same accident as the one to which Bain refers here.

'''J.O.I.'''<br />
James O. Incandenza

'''guile'''<br />
insidious cunning

'''methoxy-psychedelic'''<br />
probably referring to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMDA_%28drug%29 MMDA]

'''larval'''<br />
immature in its kind

'''codpieces'''<br />
a codpiece is a pouch at the crotch (covering the male genetalia) of tight-fitting breeches, popular during the Renaissance

'''Swinburne'''<br />
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) was a British poet whose work had themes of homosexuality and sadomasochism.

'''Boston's Roxbury and Mattapan districts'''<br />
two lower-income, primarily African American and Hispanic neighborhoods in Boston

'''prenominate'''<br />
aforementioned

'''apposite'''<br />
appropriate with regard to the current circumstances

===Page 1048===

'''fairly high-sodium way'''<br />
a circumlocution for “with a grain (or more) of salt”

'''purposive'''<br />
serving some purpose

'''Gretel the Cross-Sectioned Dairy Cow'''<br />
Cornell University apparently has a cow whose stomachs you can see in action.

'''consummate'''<br />
highly skilled

'''anaclitic'''<br />
in psychology, dependence on other people or another person

===Page 1049===

'''prevarication'''<br />
avoiding the truth by not directly answering a question

'''"...as if from the Rose Garden..."'''<br />
like the President of the U.S. answering a question from a reporter

'''exploded'''<br />
shown to be false or unfounded

'''mendacious''' <br />
untruthful

'''monilial'''<br />
relating to a fungus of the genus [http://www.merriam-webster.com/medical/monilial Candida]

'''nubbin'''<br />
a small lump or residual part

'''S. Johnson'''<br />
probably a reference to Dr. Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer

'''piteously'''<br />
pitifully

===Page 1050===

'''Steeples'''<br />
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''vacuous'''<br />
unintelligent, foolish, empty

'''Steeley'''<br />
[sic] for "Steeply"

'''ACOAs'''<br />
Adult Children of Alcoholics

'''AlaTeens'''<br />
a support group for teenage children of alcoholics

'''ACONAs'''<br />
Adult Children of Narcotics Anonymous

'''ACOGs'''<br />
ACOG is most commonly the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, but in this context it probably stands for Adult Children of Gamblers (Grifters? Gladiators? Gun-wielders?)

'''neurasthenic'''<br />
chronically fatigued and weak

'''aspic'''<br />
meat jelly

'''profligate'''<br />
extravagant

'''loquacious'''<br />
very talkative

===Page 1051===

'''Starkly'''<br />
Bain gets Steeply's name wrong yet again.

'''univocal'''<br />
unambiguous

'''furcated'''<br />
branching or forking

'''solicitous'''<br />
concerned

'''appurtenances'''<br />
accessories or equipment

'''pique'''<br />
feeling of resentment

'''albatross'''<br />
a burden, literally a large seabird, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner''

'''Starksaddle'''<br />
another mistake with Steeply's name

'''perspicuous'''<br />
clearly expressed

===Page 1052===

'''multivalent'''<br />
having various meanings

'''Bainbridge'''<br />
This isn't even close to Steeply's name.

==Endnote 304 · The Train Game==

===Page 1055===

'''McGee-like chaos'''<br />
An overflowing closet was a running gag on the old-time radio show [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibber_McGee_and_Molly ''Fibber McGee and Molly'']. 

'''smelling a rat in the woodpile'''<br />
Rats often use woodpiles as cover for their burrows, as discussed [http://unexco.com/Rat.html here].

'''B.P.L. ArchFax database search'''<br />
Possibly: Boston Public Library Archival Facsimiles.

===Page 1056===

'''murated'''<br />
 a neologism, by Hal’s criteria. Walled, perhaps from the Latin murare - to wall off.

'''QUOI?'''<br />
WHAT?

'''Sudetenlandization'''<br />
florid neologism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudetenland Wikipedia - Sudetenland]

'''G. T. Day, M.S.'''<br />
Geoffrey Day, of Ennet House, who claims to have "manned the helm of a Scholarly Quarterly" at "some jr. college up the Expressway in Medford" (272). Before the author is mentioned, the article is said to have come from "someplace called Bayside Community College up I-93 in Medford." <i>Wild Conceits</i>, the publication, is said to be edited by the author of the article Struck is ripping off.

===Page 1057===
'''vishnu'''<br />
Vishnu is the preserver/maintainer [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu god]
of the Hindu Trimurti.

'''''dasein'''''<br />
German: being there (lit)., [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasein existence]; a cornerstone of the philosophy of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger] (1889-1976).

===Page 1058===

'''''cui bono'''''<br />
Latin: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_Bono To whose benefit?]

'''geatalt'''<br />
a misprint of ''gestalt''

'''municipal fluoridation'''<br />
the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation addition of fluoride] to public drinking- (tap-)water supplies to reduce tooth decay among the population; home filtration systems (such as Brita manufactures) can remove the flouride and thus eliminate the benefit

===Page 1059===
'''''les passages à niveau de voie ferrée'''''<br />
the level crossings of railway line

'''Two hundred sixteen'''<br />
216 is the cube of 6; thus the preliminary round would yield ''Les Trente-Six'' (36) semifinalists and the second round would produce six finalists ''attendants longtemps ses tours'' (French: "waiting a long time for their turns

'''''Le Culte de Baiser Sans Fin'''''<br />
French: the cult of the kiss without end, or (as translated in the following paragraph), "the Cult of the Endless Kiss"

===Page 1060===

'''Bernard Wayne'''<br />
Most likely John "N.R." Wayne's brother.

'''contuded'''<br/>
contused (battered, crushed) is intended, a typographical error, a misspelling, or a malaprop: you decide.

'''purple'''<br/>
alluding to purple prose

==Endnote 321 · Hal's DMZ Dream==
===Page 1063===

'''Rise Over Run'''<br />
[[Image:Slope Forumla.png]] The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope slope] (''m'') of a line, expressed as its "rise" (variance along the ''y'' axis) divided by its run (variance along the ''x'' axis); equivalent in calculus to the first derivative.

'''tangent'''<br />
This concept is explained [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangent#Trigonometry here].

'''Differentiation'''<br />
the process by which one determines the first derivative of a mathematical function

'''inexorably'''<br />
relentlessly

'''Function x, exponent n, the derivative's going to be nx + x(n-1)'''<br />
Permulis appears to have misspoken.  The derivative of x to the nth power is n times x to the (n - 1) power, not nx plus x to the (n - 1)th power.

'''covers'''<br />
a recording or performance of a song that was first recorded or made popular by somebody else

===Page 1064===
'''G.C./M.S.'''<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_chromatography-mass_spectrometry '''G'''as '''C'''hromatography - '''M'''ass '''S'''pectrometry], a means of drug detection

'''Digestive-Flora'''<br />
bacteria that live in the intestines and aid in digestion, enteral microbiome

'''Verdun Protestant Hospital'''<br />
now called [http://www.douglas.qc.ca/ Douglas Mental Health Institute]

'''''tu-sais-qué'''''<br />
malaprop or just really bad French for "you know what"

'''Nutter Butters'''<br />
Nabisco's peanut-butter sandwich [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutter_Butter cookies]

'''Human Hatchet'''<br />
i.e., Axford

'''impotence'''<br />
a malaprop; he means ''impetus''

'''Blue Flames'''<br />
probably some sort of depressants

===Page 1065===
'''O<sub>2</sub>'''<br />
dioxygen, or oxygen gas as it exists in its natural state; ozone is O<sub>3</sub>

'''Jiminy Cricket'''<br />
the talking (and singing) cricket in the 1940 film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032910/ "Pinocchio"], adapted from Carlo Collodi's serial for children, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Pinocchio ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''] (1881-1883)

==Endnote 324 · John Wayne loses it==

===Page 1066===

'''moon'''<br />
to spend time idly

'''camphonated'''<br />
malaprop or misspelling of "camphorated," i.e., contained camphor

===Endnote 324a===

'''loamy'''<br />
consisting of rich, arable soil

[[Subsidized Time|Y.T.M.P.]]

===Page 1066 (cont'd)===

'''whorl'''<br />
a circular arrangement

'''funiculi'''<br />
plural of "funiculus," i.e., part of the spinal cord

===Page 1067===

'''gonions'''<br />
OED: the outermost point on the angle of the lower jaw on each side.

'''uncolloped'''<br />
neologism, having no collops or fat, more or less

'''latissimal'''<br />
referring to the [http://www.reference.com/search?r=13&q=Latissimus lattissimus dorsi] muscles

'''profligate'''<br />
wasteful

'''Nordicular'''<br />
neologism, Nordic, which is to say blond-haired and blue-eyed

'''armamentarium'''<br />
an arsenal, particularly used by physicians to refer to drugs or treatments

'''callow'''<br />
immature; inexperienced

'''entrepôt'''<br />
a port city or other place for storing/dispensing, importing/exporting, collecting/distributing goods

'''dinkle'''<br />
(American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, henceforth AHDEL5) penis

===Page 1068===

'''welching'''<br />
(or welsh) not paying a debt or wager

'''three-setter'''<br />
a tennis game ending in three sets, rather than two. So Pemulis needs to win a set against Freer to make it to the tournament.

'''cavalier'''<br />
disdainful; unceremonious

'''burr'''<br />
the word has a remarkable array of meanings, here used to mean "irritant"

===Page 1069===

'''canvas restraint-wrap'''<br />
straitjacket

'''catgut'''<br />
This is "a strong cord made by twisting the dried intestines of animals, as sheep, used in stringing musical instruments and tennis rackets, for surgical sutures, etc." (''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'').

'''"...his late great Da's..."'''<br />
Clearly Pemulis has no idea that his brother was molested by their father.

'''pharmacopic'''<br />
neologism, of or pertaining to prescription medication

'''rheumy'''<br />
full of thin mucous

'''how 17 can actually go into 56 way more than 3.294 times'''<br />
This recalls Bette Midler's anecdote (recorded on her 1977 album ''Live at Last'', told while channeling the late [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Tucker Sophie Tucker]: 

"I will never forget it. It was on the occasion of Ernie's eightieth birthday and in honor of the occasion he married a twenty-year-old girl. And he rang me up the very next day and he said to me, 'Soph, Soph, I have just married myself a twenty-year-old girl! What do you think of that?!' And I said to him, 'Ernie, when I am eighty years old, I shall marry myself a twenty-year-old boy, and let me tell you something, Ernie! Twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty!'"  

Recall that John (N.R.) Wayne is 17, while Avril Incandenza is 56, and the young tennis stud has obviously X'd the Academy matron more than three (or four) times.

'''Joan Sutherland'''<br />
(1926–2010) an Australian-born internationally renowned dramatic coloratura soprano (opera singer)

'''colposcope'''<br />
see note, p. 634

===Page 1070===

'''Bedouins'''<br />
certain Arabs of the deserts of Arabia and the Levant

'''being...buggered'''<br />
being on the receiving end of anal sex

'''b/w'''<br />
black and white

'''J. Gleason'''<br />
Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001276/ one of the great comic actors] of the 20th century.

'''Zoltan'''<br />
actually a Hungarian name, which means "ruler"

'''cretinous'''<br />
stupid

===Page 1071===

===Endnote 324f===

'''brachiatishly'''<br />
neologism; brachiation is arboreal locomotion by use of the forelimbs/arms, Generally used where appropriate to refer to primates

'''Orly'''<br />
one of the airports serving Paris

===Page 1071 (cont'd)===

'''redoubted'''<br />
formidable

'''Modus Tollens'''<br />
a Latin logical term, meaning, roughly, "the means of denying"

'''Nucleic acids'''<br />
DNA and RNA

'''A and G, T and C'''<br />
'''a'''denine and '''g'''uanine, '''t'''hymine and '''c'''ytosine, the neucleobase molecules that combine to form neucleotides, the building blocks of DNA

'''When the boulder's slipped all the way back to the bottom'''<br />
a reference to the myth of [http://www.reference.com/search?q=Sisyphus Sisyphus]

'''When the headless are blaming'''<br />
a reference to [http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if/ "If,"] the poem by Rudyard Kipling: "If you can keep your head when all about you / Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..."

'''Csíkszentmihályi'''<br />
Probably this is the last name of Zoltán, previously citted, whose “name no one can pronounce.” The name may be taken from Mihály Csíkszentmihályi (born 1934), a prominent Hungarian-American psychologist. His son Christopher is on the faculty at MIT.

'''lemma'''<br />
a proven statement used as a step in a mathematical proof

'''Boardman MN'''<br />
a town about 40 miles west-northwest of the Twin Cities

===Page 1072===


''' "directionless in a dark wood" '''<br />

A reference to Dante's "Divine Comedy"'s first Canto of the Inferno.

''' "Leap like a knight of faith . . ." '''<br />

A reference to Soren Kierkegaard's knight of faith. Kierkegaard, a theologian and philosopher, didn't think there could be any logical justification for believing in God. Instead the believer is required to take a leap of faith, so called because he (the believer) has no evidence for his convictions and thus must always, on some rational level, doubt them. In fact to Kierkegaard doubt defines faith, because if there were no doubt no leap of faith would be required in the first place, much like it doesn't require a leap of faith for you to believe you're actually reading this wikipedia entry right now, or that I'm not an alien sub rosa manipulating your mind for my own purposes.

'''"...Peano, Leibniz, Hilbert..."'''<br />
Giuseppe Peano (1858-1932) was an Italian mathematician. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a German polymath and one of the creators of calculus. David Hilbert (1862-1943) was a German mathematician. 

'''"...Fourier, Gauss, LaPlace, Rickey..."'''<br />
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830) was a French mathematician and physicist. Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) was a German mathematician. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (1749-1827) was a French mathematician and astronomer. Rickey would seem to refer to [http://www.math.usma.edu/people/Rickey/ V. Frederick Rickey], though he is contemporary while the other named men are not.

'''"...Wiener, Reimann, Frege, Green..."'''<br />
Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) was an American mathematician. Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) was a German mathematician. Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German mathematician and logician. Green is probably George Green (1793-1841), English mathematician and physicist.

===Endnote 331===

'''picaresque'''<br />
<i>adjective,</i> relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.

==Endnote 332 · Pemulis just slays deLint==

===Page 1073===

'''jury-rigged'''<br />
OED: <i>nautical</i>. used in combination to designate parts of a ship put together or contrived for temporary use; more broadly, improvised or makeshift

'''urologist'''<br />
see note, page 527

===Page 1074===

'''nictitater'''<br />
neologism, descriptive of a creature who deploys its [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane nictitating membrane] (from Latin nictare, to blink) is a transparent or translucent third eyelid present in some chordates (i.e., having a vertebral column) that can be drawn across the eye from the medial canthus (i.e., inner corner of the eye) for protection and to moisten it while maintaining vision.

'''deviant division'''<br />
56/17 (see note ''supra'' for page 1069)

'''17-into-56 leaflet'''<br />
"the leaflet about Wayne and Mrs. I." referred to earlier on the page (with the "deviant division")

'''castigations'''<br />
criticisms; reprimands

===Page 1075===

'''loupes'''<br />
eyepiece magnifying glasses used by jewellers and others requiring magnification for clothes work

'''"may the road rise up to meet you..."'''<br />
part of an old Irish blessing

'''whitherever'''<br />
neologism, in whatever direction

===Page 1076===

'''recryptographilated'''<br />
florid neologism, re-encrypted

'''incubus'''<br />
a male demon that seduces female humans

===Endnote 331===

'''sudoriferous'''<br />
<i>adjective</i> (of a gland) secreting sweat.

===Page 1077===

'''Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom's turgid studies of artistic ''influenza'''''<br />
A reference to literary critic and author [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom Harold Bloom] who [https://wwd.com/eye/people/the-full-bloom-3592315/ was no fan of DFW's]:

<blockquote>
Asked about novelist David Foster Wallace, who took his own life in 2008, but who has a new book out, “The Pale King: An Unfinished Novel,” put together from manuscript chapters and files found in his computer, Bloom says, “You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.” &mdash;WWD, April 26, 2011</blockquote>

===Page 1078===

'''n.b.'''<br />
Latin: nota bene, meaning "note well"

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